Date: Saturday, October 10, 2026, 11:00 AM-4:00 PM
Workshop Partner: Louisville Story Program
Host: Roots 101 African American Museum, 124 N 1st St, Louisville, KY 40202
Join us for a joyous, interactive day celebrating and catalyzing community-led preservation and storytelling.
The Louisville Story Program is honored to partner with Roots 101 African American Museum and the Community Archiving Workshop Collective to bring you the Save Our Stories Festival!
The stories and heritage of minoritized communities are being targeted for erasure. What can our collective response look like? Join us in exploring how you can be a part of the effort, and have lots of fun in the process!
This is an opportunity to get hands-on experience preserving important local history, to learn directly from expert archivists, and to meet the community members who recorded and/or have held on to the recordings over the years. We hope that volunteers and participants will be able to apply what they learn to future work in Louisville.
Free & open to the public: RSVP
Interested in volunteering? Email hello@louisvillestoryprogram.org
Food & refreshments will be available! We’ll keep you fueled up with coffee, breakfast, snacks, and lunch.
Here is a glimpse at what is possible during the Save Our Stories Festival:
- Explore the Roots 101 African American Museum exhibits
- Learn about inspiring “our stories told by us” projects from the people who are leading them
- Discuss what YOU think needs to be documented, preserved, and passed on, what role you can play to keep these stories alive, and who else could also play a role
- Meet others who share your passion for community-led storytelling and documentary arts
- Try your hand at making documentary videos with the Kentucky BIPOCU Filmmakers Association
- Conduct genealogical research with guidance from the Roots 101 Family Legacy Center
- Learn how you can digitize your treasured photographs and videotapes
- Learn how to record stories you care about through oral history interviewing
- See what’s on your old videotapes at a VHS viewing station
- Observe or participate in a Community Archiving Workshop in which archivists and community members inspect and catalog collections of materials that are precious to our community
- Practice some of your new skills
- Take home resources for your next step in your own preservation projects
